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Yan Xia
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry

Stanford University
Office: Stauffer II
205
Phone: 650-723-9059
Email: yanx@stanford.edu

Yan grew up in the older part of Beijing (which was very different from the bustling city now) and received his undergraduate degree from Peking University ('02) and MSc from McMaster University ('05). He obtained his PhD in 2010 from Caltech
, where he worked on cyclic and non-cyclic polymers under the tutelage of Professors Grubbs and Kornfield. Following his PhD, he worked at Dow Chemical as a senior chemist and then at MIT as a postdoc. He joined the chemistry faculty at Stanford in the summer of 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 despite all the chaos that year. His research interest is in polymer chemistry and organic/soft materials, tackling challenges with molecular designs and interdisciplinary approaches. He is a recipient of Terman Fellowship, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, and Sloan Research Fellowship.

CURRENT MEMBERS

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Dr. Dylan Freas
Postdoc 
PhD. Caltech ('21)
B.A. Williams College ('16)

Project: Ladder polymers and degradable polymers
​NetID: dfreas
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JD Feist
Graduate Student 
B.S. Caltech ('17)

Project: Degradable polymers
​NetID: jfeist


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Jinghui Yang
Graduate Student 
B.S. Peking University ('17)

SGF Fellow
Project: Mechanochemistry
NetID: jinghuiy

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Matias Horst
Graduate Student 
B.S. Duke University ('18)
NDSEG Fellow
Project: Mechanochemistry
NetID: mhorst
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Kayla Barker
Graduate Student 
B.S. Texas A&M (’18)
Project: Polyelectrolyte coacervates
NetID: kbarker3
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Ashley Robinson
Graduate Student 
B.S. Texas A&M ('16)

Project: Microporous ladder polymers
​NetID: ash16
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​Ke Zheng
Graduate Student 
B.S. Tsinghua Univ. ('19)
Project: Polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons
Net ID: zk570700
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Francesca Starvaggi
Graduate Student 
B.S.
Carnegie Mellon U ('20)
Project: Degradable polymers
NetID: fstar
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Erica Flear
Graduate Student 
B.S.
MIT ('20)
Project: Mechanochemistry
NetID: ejflear
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Zekun Ye
Graduate Student
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B.S. Peking University ('21)
Project: 
Microporous ladder polymers
NetID: zekunye
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Amy Laturski
Graduate Student 
M.Sc. York University ('21)
B.Sc. York University ('19)

Project:
Mechanochemistry
NetID: al21
Lydia Goedert
Undergraduate Student (’24)​
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David Candes
Undergraduate Student (’25)
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​Hirogi Yokochi
Visiting Graduate Student from Tokyo Tech.
B.S. Tokyo Tech ('19)
Project: 
Mechanochemistry
Net ID: yokochih

Former Members

Dan Lee, Post-Doc (2020-2022)
Xianglin Yin, Post-Doc (2020-2022)
Christian Fengler, Visiting grad student from KIT (2022)
Jonathan Sklar,
Undergraduate (Class of 2021) - graduate student at Northwestern Univ.
Jessica Su,
Ph.D. (2015-2020), Align Technology
Holden Lai, Ph.D. (2015-2020), CTO Osmoses
Soyoung Lee, Undergraduate (Class of 2020) - graduate student at MIT
Karis Will, Undergraduate (Class of 2020) - graduate student at Harvard Univ.
Joe Ahn,
Post-Doc (2018-2019), Vertex
Zexin (Henry) Jin, Ph.D. (2014-2019), postdoc at Columbia Univ (Nuckolls lab)
Junzhe (Robin) Lou, Ph.D. (2013-2019), postdoc at Harvard Univ (Mooney lab)
Xuejin Yang, Post-Doc (2017-2019) - postdoc at Univ Wisconsin, Madison (Boydston lab)
Yew Chin Teo, Ph.D. (2013-2018), A*STAR Singapore
Hiroaki Shimomoto, Visiting Professor (2018), Ehime University
Ben Elling, Ph.D. (2013-2018), faculty at Wesleyan University, Elling Lab
​Ke Zheng, visiting undergrad student from Tsinghua Univ (2018 summer)
Mahmoud Abdulhamid, visiting grad student from KAUST (2018)
Lily Chen, MSc (2016-2018), Google
​Nicolo Zulaybar, Undergraduate (Class of 2018) - Stanford coterm
Zhixing Chen, Post-Doc (2016-2018), faculty at Peking University, Chen Lab
Jing Zhang, Post-Doc (2016-2017), faculty at Wuhan University
Takaaki Uno, joint Visiting scholar (2015-17) - JSR
Fang Liu, joint Post-Doc (2015-17) - faculty at Guangzhou Medical University
Omar Garcia, Undergraduate (Class of 2016) - MD program, Stanford Medical School
Eri Gamo, Undergraduate (Class of 2016) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Victoria Nguyen,  Undergraduate (Class of 2015) - Genentech
Sheng Liu, Post-Doc (2013-15) - Dupont
Paulo Soares, MSE Masters Student (2014) - Schlumberger
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